Mikkelsen Islands
| Mikkelsen Islands | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 38 ′ S , 68 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| Main island | Skart Island | |
The Mikkelsen Islands ( French Îles Mikkelsen ) are a group of small islands off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , they are 3 km southeast of the Léonie Islands off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island . The largest and highest island in the group is Skart Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered it. Charcot named it after Otto H. Mikkelsen, a Norwegian diver who found the damaged hull of the research vessel Pourquoi Pas? inspected on December 8, 1908 not far from the Norwegian whaling station on Deception Island .
Web links
- Mikkelsen Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mikkelsen Islands on geographic.org (English)